Follow @9jaLife THE 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, is set to try its officers found to be involved in criminal acts and other offences classified as indiscipline. This came as the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, weekend, said it would not rest on its oars until all the soldiers who allegedly abducted and raped some women in the Federal Capital Territory under the guise that they were prostitutes, were fished out and punished accordingly. The 82 Division of the Army said it had concluded plans to swear in members of General Court Martial that would try the accused officers today. Serious disciplinary/criminal cases that occurred within the division's area of responsibility will be tried, according to a statement by the Assistant Director Public Relations of the division, Col. Hamzah Gambo. The cases to be tried include murder and scandalous/ disgraceful conducts. The statement hinted that there were 11 accused personnel to be tried by the general court martial. The court martial, according to the statement, is expected to round off its sitting within 90 days. NHRC begins probe of soldiers over alleged rape Meanwhile,NHRC has said that it had commenced investigation into several reported cases of alleged human rights abuses involving officials of Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB. Addressing journalists at the national headquarters of the commission in Abuja, Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof. Ben Angwe, noted that though Section 35 of the AEPB Act of 1997, forbids street begging, hawking and prostitution within the FCT, neither soldiers nor any other security agency had the statutory powers to infringe on the fundamental human rights of any Nigerian under the pretence of enforcing an extant law. According to Angwe, the commission received complaints that aside harassing innocent women on allegation that they seemed like prostitutes, officials of the AEPB usually arrest and confiscate items from hawkers for their personal use, adding that such hawkers were usually forced to bail themselves with huge sums of money. He stressed that the commission had received several complaints from victims of such alleged misconduct by officials of the board and had since commenced investigation into the allegations. He said: "The commission which gathered that the matter [...]
